Sun Comes Up, The (1949)

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# Versent dans ma pensée #
# Les baisers de ton âme. #

# Tes yeux, tes jolis yeux #
# Aux longs regards de flamme #

# Font brûler dans mon coeur #
# Le bonheur des jaloux #

Come on, Lassie, come on!

Stay there, Lassie. Hold it.

Come on, come on, Lassie.

Hey, Ma, watch this.

Come on, Lassie, come on, trip me.

Come on, Lassie, trip me.

Trip me!

Hey, be careful!

It's a new trick I just taught her.

Come on, Lassie.

Please be careful.

- Let's pick it up from here.
- All right.

# C'est le soleil d'amour #
# Aux clartés infinies #

# Tes yeux trésors chéris #

# Que j'adore à genoux #

# Tes yeux, tes jolis yeux #
# Aux longs regards si doux #

# Sont l'âme de ma vie #

# Qui n'est plus rien sans vous #

- Well done!
- Arthur!

- That'll be all today, Bob, thanks.
- Certainly, Helen.

Hello!

My, my, my, what a cold cheek.

Nothing like a sore throat just
before a concert.

I was watching Hank.

That's all you've been doing
for the past three years...

...twenty-four hours a day.

- And I'm in no mood for a scolding.
- Oh... nervous?

Arthur, of all the silly questions.

I haven't sung in three years
and you ask me if I'm nervous.

I know, I know, I'm sorry.

Oh, but I'll be all right. Once I'm
on the stage, I'm a professional.

- Tonight is business.
- And very good business, I might add.

- It's a sellout.
- But I'm scared.

Oh, not of the people.
Nor of myself, for that matter.

I'm as sure as I ever was.
I want to sing but...

Well, I... I... I'm afraid of rushing in
before I'm sure it's right for Hank.

After Dave was k*lled I began to realize
how much time my music took that...

...we might have had together.

You and Dave had a fine life.

Hm...

Hank's all I have now.

And I won't give up a minute
of being with him for...

...all the music that was ever written.

Helen, you're trying to live in Hank
and you can't do it.

You go on burying yourself
in that boy...

...and denying yourself everything
that makes you a person,

when Hank's grown up he'll be lucky
if he has a life of his own.

Is that what you want?

You know it isn't, Arthur.

After all, I've come this far on faith.
Faith in you and...

...in what you've been telling me.

It's the truth.

Well, we'll see.

But I'm warning you, if it isn't,

the first time things begin
to go wrong,

the first suspicion I have that Hank
hasn't got the kind of mother he wants,

you've lost yourself a singer.

Fair enough. Now...

Don't you think you'd better be
getting yourself a little rest?

Oh, I guess so.

# Un bel di vedremo #

# Levarsi un fil di fumo #
# Sull'estremo confin del mare #

# E poi la nave appare #

# Poi la nave bianca #

# Entra nel porto #

# Romba il suo saluto #

# Vedi? È venuto! #

# Io non gli scendo incontro #

# Io no #

# Mi metto là sul ciglio del colle #

# E aspetto, e aspetto gran tempo #

# E non mi pesa, la lunga attesa #

# E uscito dalla folla cittadina #

# Un uomo, un picciol punto #

# S'avvia per la collina #

# Chi sarà? Chi sarà? #

# E come sarà giunto #
# Che dirà? Che dirà? #

# Chiamerà Butterfly dalla lontana #

# Io senza dar risposta #
# Me ne starò nascosta #

# Un po' per celia #

# E un po' per non morire #
# Al primo incontro #

# Ed egli alquanto in pena #
# chiamerà, chiamerà #

# "Piccina mogliettina #
# Olezzo di verbena" #

# I nomi che mi dava al suo venire #

# Tutto questo avverrà #
# Te lo prometto #

# Tienti la tua paura #

# Io con sicura fede l'aspetto.

- Now are you happy?
- Oh, of course.

- My hands hurt.
- Oh, too bad about you.

Do I intrude?

- Oh, Victor, you know my son.
- Mr. Winter. Are you proud of your mother?

- Yes, sir!
- So am I.

- Do you drink champagne?
- Oh, Victor.

Then it's high time you began.
You're bringing him to my party, of course.

Oh, I'm sorry, Victor. We're having
our party at home.

I won't say goodbye. The last time
I said goodbye to you...

...it was three years before
I said hello.

Oh, well, I'm all over that.

I couldn't stop singing now
if I wanted to.

- We'll miss you at the party.
- Thank you.

- It was a beautiful performance.
- Thank you.

Well done!

I should have gone with Uncle Arthur.

Well, I think Uncle Arthur can find
the car without you.

But Lassie's waiting for me.

- There's Lassie now.
- Hi, Lassie!

Come in.

- Doctor Gage is here.
- Hello there.

- It's really spring out.
- I said I didn't want that dog in here.

Come on, Lassie, come on.

You ought to open those blinds,
Mrs. Winter, let the sun in.

No, no!

Light hurts my eyes.

You won't be able to avoid
the sight of children...

...for the rest of your life,
Mrs. Winter.

When can I get up?

I've been waiting weeks to hear that.

Physically you could have been up
a long time ago.

I don't mean just to sit around.
I want to take a trip.

- Where do you think of going?
- Far away.

- And I'm not coming back.
- Oh, now, you can't...

And please don't give me
those psychological clichés...

...about not being able to escape
from myself.

I'll miss you, Mrs. Winter.

I'll miss you too, Susan.

And thanks for everything.

She knows you're leaving her behind.

Well, you can give it to your
sister or somebody.

Oh, please, Mrs. Winter. I know what's
in your mind but it's not sensible.

- You can't blame the dog.
- That will be enough, Susan.

Goodbye.

Lassie, stop!
Come back!

Now, we'll have no more of this!

Susan, chain Lassie in the service yard.

Mrs. Winter, you're all the
family Lassie has.

Everyone's sorry for your trouble,
but Lassie's in trouble too.

Please, this is something I just
can't explain to you.

You don't have to explain
to me, Mrs. Winter.

Could you explain it to Hank?

Here, get in.

Goodbye.

Come on.

Excuse me, they don't allow
dogs in the hotel.

Oh, I hadn't thought of that.

Well, I guess she can sleep in the car.

Uh, will you bring these things
in for me, please?

Too proud to ask questions, eh?

Anybody home?

Almost warned you. Coulda told you,
but, no, you wouldn't ask.

I wasn't lost at all.

Are you Mr. Williegoode? Can you tell me
about the little house up the road?

Can and will since you ask.

Walls are solid, roof don't leak,

built by Tom Chandler, nice fellow
from the city writes books.

A body could go far into worse.

Well, uh... all right, I'll take it.

Well now, maybe you will,
maybe you won't.

The sign says uh... Mr. Williegoode Store.
You are Mr. Williegoode, aren't you?

Aren't you?

You got a fatal disease,
law in your trail?

- Certainly not!
- Well, slow down,

You act like you only got
a week to live.

Now, all these questions...

- I asked you...
- Well, I'll tell you.

Tom's particular who lives there
so he's running that house mighty high.

Though you look like maybe
you've got to spare.

Eighty dollars a month, cash.

Well, I won't need it for any more
than a week at most.

- How much would that be?
- Still, eighty dollars a month.

Oh.

Very well, here's um...
fifty.

And uh... thirty.

Ma'am, in some ways you're a pleasure
to do business with.

House is yours, go in anytime.

- Well, I'd like a key, please.
- Key!

Nobody locks the doors here.
Don't need to.

Handsome dog you got there.

- Sheep dog, ain't he?
- Uh, no, she's just a pet.

Well, good day.

You, uh... got your rations with you?

My what?

Maybe you don't need rations, maybe
you're one of them ladies lives on pills.

Do I look like a "lady lives on pills"?

Whatever you're living on you look like
you'd do with a change since you ask me.

Well, I uh... I...

...hardly know where to begin.

Leave it to me, ma'am.

Well, just let me have your poke.

My what?

Terrible ignorant asking.

This here is a poke.

Salt and pepper.

Sodium baking powder.
Flour.

Coffee and tea.

Biscuits.

Some chocolate, some milk in a can.

Peaches, beans, syrup.

A few kinds of soap, foie gras.

Cheese.

Turnip greens.

Potatoes.

Butter and bacon.

Sending you some fire wood first
thing tomorrow morning.

- Sugar... That'll do you?
- I guess so.

Oh, I'll need some dog food.

Oh, you have plenty there for a dog.

Well, that's my food.

Well, ma'am, we figure what's good enough
for us is good enough for our dogs.

That'll be $10,47.

Cash money and hand paid,
I don't accept no credit.

I didn't ask for credit.

That's true to the law, ma'am,
you surely didn't.

Not that asking for credit
would've helped you.

My business is paying tote
for friends and enemies alike.

I see.

Will, if you'd please bring this out
to the car for me, please.

Me?

Ladies hereabout generally
tote their own pokes.

Well...

Reckon it won't k*ll me
to tote it for you.

- Thank you.
- This once.

Out of my road, young'uns.

Lassie! Come here!

Leave her alone, all of you!

Lassie, come on.

Come on. Get in.

Hello, doggie. I'm Jerry.

Lassie.

Hi, Lassie.

Hush now! Let's not wake her.

Mr. Williegoode said she'd
run me off.

What are you doing here?

I'm, Jerry. It was me blowing.
I meant to keep it soft.

Oh, I did a lot of outside chores
and chopping first.

- Are you Mr. Williegoode's boy?
- I'm his handyboy, yessum.

All of us are obliged to be handy
to the folks hereabout.

Tell Mr. Williegoode I'm very
grateful to him.

And I won't need you anymore.

Oh, uh... I'll leave a dollar with Mr.
Williegoode to pay for what you've done.

Best not, ma'am.
I had my fun out of it.

But I want to give you something.

I reckon not.

Fare you well Miss Lady.

Lassie!

Come here.

It don't matter whether
you want it or not.

No law says a body's got to get
what he wants.

Fare you well, Lassie.

- What happened?
- A snake.

Lassie ain't bit.
It was a rattler, Miss Lady.

It strikes quick as it sees you.

Don't Lassie know about snakes?

I guess not.

No! No!

No, no, no!

That's a good girl.

That's like you.

Don't you ever go messing
around with no snake.

Just to be safe, don't you never
go near no snake of no kind.

You hear me?

You're smart, you are.

I could learn you anything.

You don't need to worry no more.

I'm very grateful to you.

Lassie was my...

My uh... my husband's dog.

I don't believe I'd have been able
to teach her about snakes.

Lots of things you have to know in the
mountains you don't know in the city.

Not only about snakes but how to chop
wood and lay a good fire and such like.

Well, I can see where a stranger
might need help with some things.

Then you'll let me be your handyboy?

Well, all right, just as long as I'm here.

I reckon that's a bargain, Miss Lady.

Well.

Well!

Good morning.

- Good morning, Mr. Williegoode.
- Ma'am.

I'd like to send a telegram, please.

Always in a hurry, ain't you?

I uh... I've decided to stay
my month out after all.

That's sensible since
you paid for it.

Just write out the message
and I'll send it over to the city...

...directly I get around to it.

- You want to use some spit on it.
- Oh.

Uh, and another thing. I wonder
if you could find me a maid.

- Part time will do.
- My very words, ma'am.

A time my old woman passed away.

I fine-combed this valley looking for one.

But I reckon there's scarcely a maiden
in these mountains.

All married women or spoke for.

- I mean a servant.
- I take what you're meaning, ma'am.

But I told you there ain't no
such thing hereabouts.

What's to prevent you from doing
your own work?

You look able-bodied to me.

I beg your pardon!

It's all right, ma'am, I ain't offended.

Well, if you'll just take care
of that for me, please.

You sure you need all them words?

Yes, every one of them.

Comes to uh... two dollars.

- This fellow a kin of you?
- No.

Friend man?

No, he's my manager.

Concert manager, I used to sing.

Singer, are you?

Well, if that don't beat old Billy Hall.

Tom Chandler, the fellow
you're renting from,

he was a good man with a tune.

'Most good as the radio, Tom was.

Well, I used to be pretty good myself.

Likely.

Well, I got a hog wants butchering.
Something else for you today?

Uh... Oh, yes uh...

Uh, I'd like some chewing gum, please.

Gum? You're sure it's chewing
gum you want?

Yes, chewing gum. Any kind will do.

I got chewing twist, choice of ladies'
pipes, three brands of snuff.

No, just gum.

One stick or a whole set?

Uh... a whole set.

Bless Katie.

Used to keep some in stock
for Tom Chandler.

Must have been four, five years ago.

Yessir.

Chew it just for pleasure?

Yes, just once in a while.

Bless Katie.

It comes to five cents.

Oh, I've given you all my change.
I'm afraid you'll have to trust me.

My business here is paying tote.

Do I give credit, I find it purely
destroys my sleep.

Thank you.

Good morning.

She's wearing it up, Missy.

- Good morning, Mr. Williegoode.
- Good morning, Miss Sally.

Miss Golightly.

Mr. Williegoode, I've come
for my pork chops.

- Have you had that hog butchered yet?
- No, Miss Sally, I ain't.

But if you have a mind
to butcher him yourself,

I reckon you know where
the weapons is at.

Oh, Mrs. Winter!

I give you credit, Mrs. Winter.

Oh, thank you.

Mr. Williegoode, don't mountain women
ever speak to strangers?

Not to them that runs off
the young'uns.

Oh...

Well... I can't stand have children
around me anymore, Mr. Williegoode.

I've been very ill.

I suppose you ran off that
boy I sent you.

No, as a matter of fact I...
I hired him.

You'll get your money's worth.

But he wouldn't take any money.
I offered it to him.

Does it surprise you?

When we raise young'uns in the
mountains, we raise them right.

They learn manners.

What about your manners,
Mr. Williegoode?

Didn't you tell me I was
"terrible" ignorant?

I told the truth.
Truth ain't nothing to do with manners.

- Day, young'uns.
- Good day, Mr. Williegoode.

What did she say?

Why, she said to tell you she was sorry
she run off your young'uns, Miss Sally.

- Something for you, Miss Golightly?
- A can of peaches.

Can of peaches.

Uh, that ain't her message
you got there, Mr. Williegoode?

- It's a message.
- Where to go?

New York City.

Got relatives in New York City, likely.

- He's no relative, he's a manager.
Manager?!

So she said.

Why, Mr. Williegoode!
She comes right out for it, doesn't she?

What's the matter, Lassie?

- Evening, Miss Lady.
- Oh, Jerry.

I was just passing by.

Well, you'd better come inside
and warm up before you go home.

It's a good thing for me you were
just uh... just passing by.

Maybe now you'll show me
how to light these lamps.

Don't you know about
oil lamps, Miss Lady?

Well, I do know they're supposed
to have oil in them, but I...

- I couldn't find any, and besides...
- I'll see to it.

Ain't no wonder you couldn't
find the lamp oil.

Mr. Tom he keeps it in the cupboard
with the brooms.

What were you really doing out
there in the dark, Jerry?

Listening.

Did you like it?

Mr. Tom, he was good listening, too.

Times he'd have music he made me
come right in the room.

Then times he... he'd do the
pieces I'd fancy.

So would I if you'd ask me.

- Would you, Miss Lady?
- Hm-hmm.

I'd be thankful.

Why...

Why, there's a kind of full feeling
you get from listening.

Yes, I know what you mean.

- You know?
- Hm-hmm.

Like... like the feeling
you get when the...

...when the sun comes up.

Well, I ain't rightly got
the words for it.

I think you have.

Never pick it up with the top, ma'am,
lest you wanna burn your hands.

But it isn't even warm.

Not now it ain't. But you gotta
get in the right habits.

Always do it this away.

- Then you can't never get burned.
- Oh, I see what you mean.

I'll remember that, thanks.

Seems like a lot of trouble for such
a little light, doesn't it?

Oh, you can have any size
of light you favor.

See?

The high light's nice for reading
and such like.

Low light's nice for the bed.

If you're wakeful, I mean.

I thought boys were never wakeful.
I thought they slept like logs.

Well... times they do and...
times they don't.

I reckon you'll want this lamp
in the other room.

I'll fill all the others first
thing tomorrow.

Thank you, Jerry.

Jerry.

What are the pieces you fancy?

What you were singing was fine.

# Songs my mother taught me #

# In the days long vanished #

# Seldom from her eyelids #

# Were the teardrops burnished #

# Now I teach my children #

# Each melodious... #

Did I do something, ma'am?

No, it's not your fault.

It's just that I had a boy once
and I don't have him anymore.

And you have such eyes,
and such a smile, and...

such funny big boys' feet.

All just the same and yet...
really not the same at all.

It's getting late. You'd better go.

- Miss Lady...
- Please, not now, Jerry.

I had no right to say those things
to you and... I'm sorry.

Miss Lady, you got no call to regret
saying them things to me.

Every a thing you feel to say to me
I'd be proud.

That's only friendly.

But you're just a boy, Jerry.

I ain't such a boy I don't understand
what losing is.

That's very kind of you.

Thank you.

Good night.

Good night, Miss Lady.

- Oh, Jerry!
- Yes, Miss Lady?

Your wages, I believe.

Miss Lady, a dollar's too much for the
little piece of work I've done today.

Please take it.

Well, I'd not take it till I earned it.

But I got some trading to do
in the morning.

- Trading?
- Hm-hmm, trading.

- Good night, Miss Lady.
- Good night, Jerry.

Good night.

Thanks.

- Good morning, Mr. Williegoode.
- Good morning, Jerry.

Good morning, Luther, Alex,
Cleaver, Junebug,

Milford, Dilford, Wesley,
Baz and Pat...

You with the little toppy eyes,
what's your name?

- I'm love.
- So you're Love.

Doggone expecting you
at my time of life.

Well, such as I am, I'm proud
to make your acquaintance.

Now, you boys got business?

Yes, sir. I've come to trade.
They've come to watch me.

- You sure this is yours to trade with?
- It's wages.

Jerry, you'll do better to put
this dollar by.

The devil despises providence
but the Lord loves a cautious spender.

Not that you asked me.

How much of this you want to put by?
Eighty cents, ninety cents?

Not a bit, sir.

You ain't needing nothing
that costs a dollar.

Needing ain't the same as wanting.

I take your meaning, boy.
What's your choice?

This.

I wanna buy it.

Now I'm able to. I wanna own it.

- Aw, that mouth organ.
- If I had me a dollar!

Them boys think you made
a poor choice.

- I reckon.
- I reckon too.

And I always loaned you that mouth
organ whenever you was in mind to blow.

Borrowed or boughten, don't it blow
the very same?

No, sir, it don't.

Boy, that mouth organ's marked down.
You got a dime coming.

- I got a dime coming? I...
- Calm there!

Bless Katie.

Mr. Williegoode, what's the price
of one of these stripedy ba*ls?

Ten cents.

- Hey, Jerry!
- Hi, Jerry!

Hey, Jerry, what you doing?

- Practicing.
- Practicing what?

- Driving, of course.
- He's crazy, he can't drive.

Well, shucks, that's why
I'm practicing.

- Jerry!
- Now you'll catch it.

Jerry, I just wanted to tell you
that second knob on the left...

...is the radio if you want music.

Thank you, Miss Lady.

Miss Lady, I'd like for you to meet
my friends.

- Oh, Jerry...
- Please, Miss Lady.

- I like for my friends to meet each other.
- All right.

Miss Lady, this here's Baz,
Wesley, Milford,

Topher, Markus, Tad, Winslow, Steven,
Richard, Charles, Robert and Love.

This here's Junebug.

And that there's Cleaver.

This here's Miss Lady.

- How do you do, fellas?
- How do you do?

That there's an awful fine
auto, I reckon.

Well, it's very nice of you to say so.

Autos are awful fine riding, I reckon.

- Would you like to try it and see?
- Us? Now?

Well, of course. It's almost lunch time,
I can drive you all home.

Come on, get in!

Oh, you can't sit there, that's
where I sit. Over you go.

Well, looks like there's room
for all of us.

- Who wants to stay behind?
- Me and Lassie'll stay behind.

- We'll ride another time.
- Thanks, Jerry.

- I'll ride another time too.
- No you won't either!

Cleaver will, won't you?

# Cousin Ebenezer, he can do #

# The things everybody has a hankering to #

# Cousin Ebenezer, he can fly #

# And spend the summer in the sky #

# Change a river into wood #

# Cousin Ebenezer could #

# Make the river flow again #

# Cousin Ebenezer can #

# Cousin Ebenezer, he can sh**t #

# The ears off a Yankee in a Union suit #

# Cousin Ebenezer ain't afraid #

# Of any living man or maid #

# Cousin Ebenezer, he's a Jefferson Davis #
# Juius Caesar #

# I'm glad that he live in Caroline #
# And I'm glad that he's a cousin of mine #

# Yes he is a cousin of mine #
# Yes he is a cousin of mine #

Tell me, do you fellows all live
up this same road?

Yes, Miss Lady.

Well, just let me know where
each one of you wants off.

You can make a parcel of us, ma'am.
We all belongs in the same place.

- Oh, where's that?
- County Home, for orphans like we are.

Likely she calls it an orphanage.

Tell me what it's like.
I mean, do you all get along all right?

Yes, ma'am.

Clean shirts and overalls every
week in the year.

I like Sunday. There's never no chores
to do on Sunday.

You don't have no chores on Sunday,
do you, Miss Lady?

- No, of course not.
- How about eating?

I mean, eating out of mealtimes.

Do you reckon that's wrong,
Miss Lady?

No, eating's never wrong
if you're hungry.

- Thank you, ma'am.
- Goodbye!

- You're welcome.
- Thank you, ma'am!

So long!

Oh, boy... uh you.

- Junebug.
- Oh, Junebug.

Tell me. What did you fellows have
in mind checking up on me like that?

Jerry and us are all good friends.
We did it on Jerry's account.

Some people come here talking
about adoption.

And all they want is somebody to work in the
fields without having to have to pay them.

Oh... Oh, you don't understand...

A body can see you aren't like that.

I reckon you aren't fixing to take
Jerry unless you want him.

Oh...

Well, thanks for the ride, ma'am.

- You're welcome, er...
- Junebug.

You're welcome, Junebug.

Come on, Lassie, come on.

Come on, Lassie, come on!

Yes, that's right.

Is this New York, operator?

Yes, Mr. Arthur Norton.

I am holding the line.

Hello, I want to speak with...
Oh, Arthur!

This is Helen.
No, no, I'm fine.

It's just that things are getting
a little complicated down here.

Well, um...

I can't tell you about it now but...

I wonder if you're going to be in Atlanta
with Victor and the troupe.

Good. Well, I'll meet you there
at the theater.

Oh, no, no, it won't be necessary.

A day or two one way or the other
won't make that much difference.

Oh, by the way, have you cancelled out
all of my concert tours?

Oh, good. Well, hold on to as much
as you can until I see you

Thanks, I'm anxious to see
you too, Arthur.

Goodbye.

Everything alright now?

- Oh, yes, yes, fine.
- Pleased to hear it.

Come in.

- Evening, boy.
- Evening, Mr. Williegoode.

Sit down, eat you some supper.

- I bet.
- Well, it's there if you have a mind to it.

Mr. Williegoode,

what is it that obliges folks
to be the way they are?

All on how a body looks at it, boy.
I'm a methodist myself.

Oh, that ain't what I mean.

It's...

Well, what is it that obliges folks...

...to want folks.

That's the one question in the world
man ain't yet found the answer to,

since you ask me.

You ain't out acourting, are you?

Courting, me?

- Shucks no!
- Don't be so positive.

Most folks don't take the right
meaning to courting.

The way I see it, courting
is trying to get somebody...

...to hanker after you as much
as you hanker after them.

I'd say you was courting Mrs. Winter to
adopt you and I'd say you stop it.

Something wrong with me,
Mr. Williegoode?

Nothing. That ain't the point.

Point is things like that either happen
or they don't happen.

Now you stop sickening for something that
neither you nor nobody else can plan out.

There's got to be a way,
Mr. Williegoode.

'Cause if she don't take me,
then I...

I ain't got nobody.

I know how you feel, boy.

I ain't been alone most of my life
out of a choice.

Uh, fetch me my pipe.

I call to mind the last time
I courted.

It was a widow woman over
at Possum Bend.

There was some woman.

Big and soft and sweet as
a basket of blackberries.

Ten years I courted her...

till finally I seen I weren't
getting no younger

and I took my foot in my hand
over to Mandville...

...and paid $7 for that foolish little
clock you see on the shelf.

Chinee it is.

I knowed it was just the kind of thing
to pleasure the widow woman.

And I planned it for a pledge
between her and me.

That was sharp figuring. What was your
next move, Mr. Williegoode?

Molly, I said to her that night,

look someplace else with your eyes
for I'm fixing to talk to you serious.

Alright, Willie, said she.

But first I'm going to show
you something.

Now, she showed me a picture
of a man.

A man ten years dead and buried.

Willie, says she,

I call to mind my Charlie,

not that he was the best
man in the world,

but I wouldn't want no better,

even if he was to offer, which,
says she, I hope he never will.

Now Willie, says she, what was it
you was fixing to say to me?

And I says...

"Fare thee well, Miss Molly", and went away
from there and never went back no more.

Think I done right, boy?

I reckon.

There's one thing I've always
been thankful for.

She got them words said before
she'd seen the clock.

Don't you reckon if she'd
seen the clock first,

it might have notioned her
to take you?

Right. But you see, I'd rather
not to be taken at all...

...than to be taken for the
wrong reason.

I don't see why,

if you wanted to be taken more than
anything in the whole world.

Well, I'd know the wanting was
all on my side.

And I'd know that all the clocks in Chinee
could change that fact.

But look, it...

Boy, the long and short of it is
a man's got to respect hisself.

I reckon.

We saw you from the window.

I think Lassie has something
to tell you.

So have I.

Are you going... over the mountian?

- Yes, ma'am.
- Well, we'll walk with you.

You know the other day when you
brought the boys over to meet me?

You said something very nice, Jerry.

Remember, something about liking
your friends to meet each other?

Oh.

I was proud, Jerry, proud
to be your friend.

And I'd like to go on being a friend
even when I'm not here anymore.

You... you're going away?

Hm-hmm, pretty soon.

- Where?
- Well, I don't know exactly, Jerry.

But I won't forget you.
I'll write to you.

- Do you like to get letters?
- I don't know.

I ain't never got one.

Everybody likes to get letters.

And you'll write to me too,
and uh...

Then perhaps one day, if I can,
maybe I'll come back to Brushy Gap.

Don't you come back, Miss Lady,
just for me.

Why not, Jerry, what else
would I come back for?

I won't be here.
I'm going away too.

You are, Jerry?

I... I didn't realize you had
any place to go.

I'm going to Mandville.
My mother lives in Mandville.

Your... Your mother, Jerry?

Yes, ma'am, my mother.

Why aren't you living with her?

I will soon.

Oh...

- I'm sorry.
- Nobody's obliged to be sorry for me.

- I can get along just fine.
- You don't understand, Jerry.

I didn't mean to hurt
your feelings, it's...

It's just that...

Well, I... It took me a little by surprise.

I didn't realize you had
a mother of your own.

I'm glad, Jerry.

- Are you, Miss Lady?
- Hm-hmm.

Yes, I am. Glad for you.

Jerry!

- Would you do me a favor?
- Sure, Miss Lady, anything I'm able.

I wanted you to take care
of Lassie for me.

You're going away like you said?

Just to Atlanta on business.
I'll be back tomorrow.

Well, what are you looking
so sullen about?

I'll look after her, Miss Lady.

Here, Lassie, come on.

Thank you, Jerry.

I'll bring you something nice
from Atlanta. What'll it be?

Thanks, Miss Lady, but you got
no call to buy me nothing.

Well.

Well, goodbye.

Fare you well, Miss Lady.

Can't play now.

Got hoeing to do.

Out of my way now!

Got no time to waste on an old dog
that's got to go off and...

We'll do the hoeing later.

Let's have some fun now.

You're late, Jerry.

Yes, ma'am.

You're soaking wet.
What happened to you?

- I fell in the branch.
- Weren't you supposed to be hoeing?

He weren't, Miss Pope. He ain't done
more than two or three rows all morning.

That's enough, Cleaver. Was there
any reason you couldn't do your work?

No, ma'am, I was just
trafficking about.

Now, Jerry, I know you're fond
of Mrs. Winter and the dog.

But you have no right to be visiting
when there's work to be done.

Work first and visit afterwards...

...ot I'll have to say no more
visiting ever.

- Miss Pope, you'd not!
- Only if I have to.

Now run along and change your
clothes before you take cold.

Miss Pope, I can't, this is already
my next week's shirt and overalls.

Well, go out in the cook house
and dry off by the stove.

Yes, ma'am.

Hey!

Come on, I got work to do.

There.

Nine rows and three rows extra.
Reckon that'll stop old Cleaver's mouth.

Now I gotta put up the hoe.
You stay here.

I don't aim to get in no more
trouble on your account.

Hey, want me to help you
with the cows, Jerry?

Cows?

You ain't forgot, after what
Miss Pope said?

Couldn't have done it without you.

I don't know what's the matter
with me.

That's the washup bell already.

Reckon I'd best not be missed
at supper.

You wait for me here and I'll fetch
you home as soon as I can.

Ain't you heard what I said?
Stay here!

I don't like the way you look, Jerry.

I'm fine, Miss Pope, just tired a bit.

Better turn in early then.

Jerry, about that dog.

Dog, Miss Pope?

That's right, Jerry.

If you try real hard,
you might hear it too.

For a fact that might be a dog.

Some old stray no-account pup
trying to get in here,

don't you think, Miss Pope?

Might be Mrs. Winter's dog too.

Don't you think so, Jerry?

Well, I wouldn't really want to pin
myself down on that, Miss Pope.

Then suppose I pin you down.

And suppose you send her right
back to Mrs. Winter.

- Now or after eating?
- Now.

Right now.

Go home!
Get under there.

Get under there.

I'll come for you the soonest
minute I can.

That's right, you go now.

Don't know what you're trafficking
about me for anyway.

Get all the way under.

And be still.

Looks like she's gone.

Must take you home after bedtime.

Jerry.

You left most of your supper.
Do you feel all right?

You got a little fever.

No, ma'am.

Throat sore?

See me first thing in the morning.
Don't forget, will you?

Yes, ma'am.

Come on, now, I gotta
get you home.

You'll get me in trouble here.

Come on.

Hello, Lassie, hello.

So you're Miss Lady.

I'm Mrs. Winter. I rent this place.
Who are you?

Tom Chandler, I own this place.

Mr. Tom! Well, Jerry will certainly
be glad to see you.

As a matter of fact, Jerry was
very glad to see me.

When I hit town last night,
Mr. Williegoode put me up.

He told me about my tenant.

And I've never been a landlord before,
so I decided to ride over this morning...

...and say hello. It was very lucky
that I did.

I found Jerry passed out on
the front porch.

Sick boy, Tom. Pneumonia.

Needs a nurse. I'll send someone
over from town.

- That won't be necessary.
- Oh, Mrs. Winter, Dr. Sample.

- How do you do, Doctor.
- How are you, Mrs. Winter?

If you don't mind, good intentions
don't make a good nurse, you know.

- I wasn't talking about myself.
- Oh, I see.

Well, I'll be around again tomorrow.

Come out to the car, Tom,
and I'll give you what you need.

- All right.
- Oh, Doctor.

- Would it be all right if I...
- Just for a minute, but keep him quiet.

He's had a shot of penicillin and
some pills to hold down the fever.

Probably half asleep by now.

Hello, Jerry.

Miss Lady, what you reckon ails me?

You had a bad cold, that's all.

Something you wanted?

Maybe I can think of something for you.

The doctor says you're to
have a nurse.

And I'm going to get one for you.
The best in the world.

I'm going over to Mandville and I'm going
to bring your mother back.

Doesn't that please you?

Miss Lady, don't you do it!

I don't want no trouble.

- Trouble?
- I don't want no trouble, I tell you!

I don't! I don't want her here!

There, there, of course not, Jerry,
of course not.

She won't come if you don't want to.

Oh, dear, dear, dear.
It's all right, I just thought that...

I thought, well...
It's all right, Jerry, now.

I promise.

- Good morning, Miss Golightly.
- Good morning.

I want to thank you for those fresh eggs
you've been bringing over to Jerry.

No need to, I had more than I could use.
Besides, Jerry's a good boy.

- Hope you used them in that coconut cake.
- How did you know about that?

Seen it cooling in the window
the other morning when I come by.

But uh... it turned out rather well,
I thought.

Sure did.

I was telling the other ladies I didn't
think you could boil water, much less bake.

Been keeping yourself mighty private
since you got here...

instead of dashing back
and forth in your car...

...twixt your place and Williegoode's store.

Thought you might have lost
the use of your legs.

I almost have.

But I do need some things
from Mr. Williegoode's.

It's such a lovely day. Mr. Chandler
is staying with Jerry so I...

"Mr." Chandler?

Don't tell me after all the time
he's been around your house...

...day in and day out it's still "Mister"?

My advice is start calling him Tom.

I'll bear that in mind.
And thanks for the tip.

- How's Jerry keeping?
- Oh, he's out of the woods now.

Soon as I fatten him up a bit
he'll be good as new.

Maybe you'd ike to take
the boy some flowers.

Oh, they're lovely.
They're the loveliest I've seen.

Oh, it's kind of you to say so.

Must say though, I never thought anybody
as peculiar as you could admire flowers.

Well, I always had them at home.

Well, then maybe you'd like to take
a posy along, if you like them.

- I have more to spare.
- Oh, that's very kind of you.

No need to call it ma'am.

I say it's right sinful for a folk
not to have flowers.

- That'll be all, ma'am?
- I think so.

Oh, I'd like to buy a gift for a lady
who's been very kind to me.

- What do you think she'd like?
- Snuff.

- Snuff?
- Snuff.

All the ladies hereabouts are fond of snuff.
Do you happen to know which kind she favors?

No, I don't.
What do you sell most of?

The majority of the ladies prefers
Toute Sweet.

A few are fond of uh... Four Thorns.

And now and again...

...you get a real old lady who's got
a strong stomach and favors Copenhagen.

Well... I'll take some of the
first you said.

Can't go wrong with Toute Sweet.

If she don't like it, she can swap it.

If you want to do it up
real brown, Mrs. Winter,

...a whole cartoon is a real
pleasure to any lady.

All right, a whole "cartoon" it is.

Oh, and would you wrap it up
nicely for a gift?

And give it all dead away?

Let her know you planned it
for a present, a payback?

- No?
- No, ma'am.

Since you ask me,
I'd say you do it this way.

When the lady comes to visit,

just shove the cartoon into sight...

with one box takened out so she'll
know you've just been buying them.

- Oh, yes.
- Then you say to her:

"Ma'am", you say, "I just happened to get me
more snuff than I can comfortably use...

and I'd be proud that you
obliged me by taking it off my hands...

...whilst it's still fresh."
That's what you say.

Hm, and then what'll she say?

She says, "Glad to oblige you, ma'am.
How much do I owe you?"

And you say, "Not a thin dime.
It's the biggest kind of a favor to me."

And then she says, "Just to help you out,
ma'am, I'll take it.

I do despise to see good snuff
go stale and wasted."

- Then you say...
- Oh, don't you think I've said enough?

You have for a fact and you've
returned a favor and no feelings hurted.

Thank you, Mr. Williegoode,
and I'll do you proud.

Miss Golightly,

I just happened to have bought me
more snuff than I can comfortably use.

Snuff, you say?

Yes, and I'd be proud that you
obliged me by...

...taking it off my hands whilst
it's still fresh.

I'd be glad to oblige you, ma'am.
How much do I owe you?

Not a thin dime, it's the biggest
kind of favor to me.

Just to help you out, ma'am,
I'll take it. I do despise...

...to see the snuff grow stale
and wasted.

Why, you only used one box
out of this.

You sure you ain't
disfournishing yourself?

Ain't what?

Well, if you're sure.

Toute Sweet's my brand too.

- Join me?
- Oh, after you, Miss Golightly.

- You ain't ate it?
- I always eat it.

Them city women's got more strength
than I give them credit for.

# If you were mine to love #
# Then I would have my true dream #

# If you were mine to love #
# I'd never want a new dream #

# With you my heart will know #
# The joy a heart discovers #

# When first aware #
# That spring and song are there #

# For lovers #

# If I could only say #
# That magic was my power #

# I'd change all night and day #

It's a pretty song, Mr. Tom.

Smooth and easy.

You and I'll never hear it sung better.

It's called Romance.

Pretty name too.

You ain't never sung for
Miss Lady yet.

And compete with that?
That's talent, Jerry.

With me it's a blue streak.

I think you do real good.

- Maybe you're a mite bashful.
- Oh, that's nonsense.

Just as you say, Mr. Tom.

# I know you're there #
# For I designed you #

# Oh, tomorrow's song will be you #
# My dreaming will be through #

# If you were mine #

Good morning, Mr. Williegoode!

- Howdy.
- Hi.

- Hello.
- Good morning, ma'am.

Fine sounding music coming
down the road.

- Thank you.
- Fine sounding right here, Helen.

- How's your health, boy?
- Oh, I ain't sick no more.

Can't be well neither, judging from the way
you're sitting idle in a full midday.

Now, now, Mr. Williegoode,
none of that. Jerry's my patient.

Won't you come in and chat?
Or are you in a hurry?

Uh, just a slow hurry, ma'am.

Gotta make a deliver down
at the County Home.

They're bringing in the harvest
down there.

Shorthanded too,

So am I shorthanded, Mr. Williegoode.

It ain't what folks are saying.

This here's for you, ma'am.
Come by special messenger.

- Thank you.
- No need to open it, ma'am.

The fellow said it was train tickets.

Guess I let the cat out of the bag.

Oh, it's no secret, it's... it's...
just that I hadn't got around to telling...

What is there to tell?

We should have known the difference
between singing for your friends...

...and practicing for a concert.

You're going away only this time
you're not coming back, that's it, isn't it?

Uh... something like that.

Well, I'm off.

Mr. Williegoode.

Is there room in the truck for me?

Always has been, boy.

Reckon I'll ride as far as
the County Home with you.

Uh... Jerry.

Jerry, my train doesn't leave until early
Sunday morning. That's four days.

They're shorthanded at the
harvesting, Miss Lady.

But I'll see you before I go,
won't I?

We'll have at least one day together.

I know, Saturday you,
and Tom and I...

...can drive to town and have
dinner at the hotel there.

And then in the evening
we can go to a picture or...

- ...whatever you want to do.
- Harvesting is busy work, Mrs. Winter.

After all, it won't spoil the harvest
to come and say goodbye.

There will be time enough for that.

Won't there?

If I get free time between
now and Saturday, I'll come by.

If I get free time.

Is that what you stopped by for,
Mr. Williegoode?

Something like that.

It wasn't exactly a kindness to me.

No hard feelings, ma'am,
I hope.

Between you and the boy I couldn't see
no way of doing kindness to both of you.

Kindness! He was perfectly
happy here.

Do you call it a kindness to send
him back to that...

Back to where he's to stay, ma'am.

Ain't no use getting him used
to what he can't have.

Good day, ma'am.

You know, the night I came back
and found Jerry sick,

he did an awful lot of talking
about you.

- Did he? Did he really?
- Yeah.

Of course he was feverish
and a bit confused in the head.

I was afraid that he was making you up.

Then when you walked in
that next morning,

...and afterwards all this time,

I've been awfully glad that he didn't
make you up, glad that you were real and...

...like you are.

Not any more though.

Things you make up you can end
your own way.

But I have to go away.
There isn't anything else I can do.

Jerry isn't alone, you know.
He has a mother.

Well, I... I...

I just don't fit in.

No matter how much we talk about it,
only one fact remains.

I can't take Jerry away from
his own mother.

Don't kid yourself, you already have.

Oh, there, there, Lassie.
You'll see Jerry in just a few minutes.

Helen.

Don't do this, please.

If Jerry had wanted to say goodbye,
he had plenty of time.

I know.

I think I knew he wasn't coming back
when he got into Williegoode's truck.

But I can't help it.

I have to see him again
and say goodbye.

You stay here.
I'll send him out.

Thanks, Tom, you're being
awful nice about it.

Well, turns are tough all over,
why should I make them worse?

Mr. Tom said you were on
your way, Miss Lady.

I am.

I thought you might be around
to say goodbye but...

I'm sorry about that.

I am too.

You see, out of all the time
I've been here at Brushy Gap,

I wanted to remember these
last few days best.

Miss Lady, would you like to know
what times I liked best?

That first night when I heard you
singing in the dark and...

Lassie came out and found me,
and you taking me inside.

I reckon if I could choose what
I remember, I'd remember that.

Well, I... I'm afraid what I'll remember
is the first time I saw you.

How badly I behaved.

Oh, I already forgot that.
You ought to.

Oh, Jerry, if only you could...

Don't you cry, Miss Lady.

Fare you well.

You go back to her now.

Hey, watch out for the lamp!

That'll be Mr. Williegoode.

Church social tonight.
He's reminding the neighbors.

- What's the matter?
- That's a flare signal.

See there?

Might be the Hooper place.

No, that's the County Home!

- Mrs. Pope, are all the children safe?
- Yes they are.

- Where's Jerry?
- Jerry?

He's helping out with the
older boys.

Miss Pope!

Miss Pope, I'm up here, Miss Pope!

Miss Pope!

Junebug, is Jerry with you?

Could be anyplace since
he came home with you.

- Well have you seen him anywhere?
- No, Miss Lady!

Mr. Williegoode, have you seen
Jerry anywhere?

No.

- Tom, Tom!
- What is it?

It's Jerry, I can't find him.

A lot of the boys are back
in the barn.

No, he isn't there, I looked there,
I've looked everywhere.

- Tom, you don't think he...
- No, I know he isn't.

Now stop worrying, he's around someplace.

Williegoode said everybody
was cleared out.

What's the matter? What's the matter?
Can't you find him either?

Lassie. Lassie, find him.

Find Jerry!
Go and find him.

Lassie!

Help! Help somebody!

Help!

Lassie! It's me, Lassie!

It's me, Lassie.

I know it's you.

Good girl, Lassie!

Help! Help!

Lassie! Lassie, come back, Lassie!

Come back here!

Get a ladder somebody!

And a couple of blankets!

Lassie! Come back, Lassie!

Lassie!

In here, Lassie, in here!

Come on, Lassie!

You know how.

Come on, Lassie, you know how!

Come on, Lassie, you know how!

Come on, Lassie!

Come on!

Hurry up, Lassie, hurry up!

Hurry, Jerry, use the ladder!

Bring the stretcher over here.

Jerry, are you all right?

Come on, Lassie, jump!

Hold it tight! Watch it!

Get away from the fire.

Well, neighbors, all's been done
can be done.

We'd best divide up these
young'uns amongst us.

I can sleep six, but somebody's obliged
to tell my woman he ain't mine.

Well, I can handle four or five
of the boys one in each size.

He's asleep now.

I know what I'm going to do
about Jerry.

- Oh?
- I've got it all figured out.

Oh, you have? I'm glad.

Tomorrow or whenever you can,

would you drive over to Mandville
and see Jerry's mother for me?

Find out how much money she needs
to have Jerry with her.

Then let me know and I'll take
care of it.

Well...

I never would have believed it.

Never.

What's the matter? Surely she'd
let me do that much.

If you want to find out, you'll have
to ask her yourself.

But I can't, I won't be
here tomorrow.

Besides, I can't wake a strange woman
in the middle of the night.

She's not a strange woman,
she's Jerry's mother.

You're trying to arrange things for Jerry
just to ease your own conscience.

All right, you handle it yourself.

You know better what it's worth
to get him out of your mind.

I don't want to get mixed up in it.

You see, I'd have to explain it
to Jerry. Well, I can't.

He wouldn't understand why you don't want
love when he doesn't want anything else.

All right, I'll...

I'll take care of it myself.

Come on, Lassie.

Is there anything you'd like me
to tell Jerry in the morning...

...when he wakes up and finds
that you're gone?

- You're not making it easy.
- I'm not trying to.

I thought you were in bed.

I was. Then I heard the door
and the car.

It's kinda cold, ain't it, Mr. Tom?

Oh, it's not as cold as
you think, Jerry.

Uh, Mrs. Winters is going to stop
at Mandville on her way to the train.

- Mandville?
- Hm-hmm.

She's going to have a talk with
your mother about a family reunion.

A permanent one, what do you
think of that?

Oh, Mr. Tom!

I reckon it's about the worst yet.

I never meant for her to know.

Not to know what?

Something about your mother?

I don't have no mother.

Well, why did you say
that you did have a mother?

Why did you tell her that, Jerry?

'Cause I seen it were like
Mr. Williegoode said.

I seen the wanting were all
on my side.

It was all I could do.

A man's got to respect hisself.

Mr. Tom!

Did you hear?

Oh, Lassie!

You came back!

There's a car coming, Mr. Tom.

I ain't not gonna see her!
I ain't!

It's all right. Now relax.
Come on, Lassie.

I ain't obliged to tell her
I lied, am I?

Am I?

When Lassie showed up I thought
you'd be alone.

I'm not going to let you take
her away again.

I didn't come back for Lassie,
I came for Jerry.

For Jerry? Then you have been
in Mandville.

Yes.

Yes, I sat in the car for what
seemed like ages...

...trying to get up the courage to ask
where Jerry's mother lived.

Well, then you didn't
see his mother.

No, I didn't!

Why should I give Jerry back to her
when I need him so much and he needs me?

And he does. She doesn't know
what it means to be a mother.

Being a mother doesn't stop when your
child's born, that's when is starts.

And she's lived her life without a word to
say whether she even remembers or cares.

Well, if she does care,
let her prove it.

Let her fight for him, because
I'm not going to give Jerry up.

Not unless... he wants it.

Where is he?

Oh, Jerry! Oh, Jerry, come on out.
Somebody's here.

Jerry!

Hey, Jerry!

Jerry, it's all right, come here!

Jerry, please!

Jerry!

Jerry, Jerry, stop!

Lassie!

Lassie! Trip him!
Trip him, Lassie!

What's the matter, have you gone
out of your head?

Let me go, Mr. Tom!
I could beat the sunlight out of you.

Somebody ought to spank
you hard!

Jerry! Jerry, what is it?
What's the matter?

Reckon you best go away,
Miss Lady,

like you planned.

Guess you know now about my mother.

Oh no, I don't.

It doesn't matter, Jerry, nothing matters,
unless... unless you want to go back to her.

Do you?

- Yes... Yes, I do!
- Jerry!

Miss Lady...

I don't have no mother.

Oh, yes you do have a mother, Jerry.

Do you want me?

Miss Lady, I reckon that's a bargain.